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Event: October 2014

Fri
17/10/14
07:30 PM

Competition 1

Event-Picture: Competition 1

Film

Wettbewerb

More than 770 Submissions from 70 countries were sent in for the 7th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. The Programme Commission nominated
29 of them for the competition. Four prizes will be given out this year by the three-person, international jury: the »ZEBRA Prize for the Best Poetry Film«, sponsored by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, the »Goethe Film Prize«, sponsored by the Goethe Institute, the »Ritter Sport Film Prize«, sponsored by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG, as well as the »Prize for the Best Film for Tolerance«, sponsored by the Foreign Office. The prizes have a total value of €12,000. 

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Location:
Babylon
Saal 1

Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin


Entrance fee:
8 EUR


Info- and Tickets: +49. 30. 242 59 69 (from 5 pm)
Tickets also available at www.babylonberlin.de

The Movies

Bleu Nuit / Midnight Blue

  Bleu Nuit / Midnight Blue

David Myriam – France  2013  7:55 min  french  
Poem: Bleu Nuit David Myriam

An illustration of the underwater world and its devastation by humans.

Afterlight

  Afterlight

Timothy David Orme – USA  2013  3:00 min  english  
Poem: Afterlight Thimothy David Orme

An exploration of the inherent lightness and darkness within us.

essen – stück mit aufblick / eating – piece with up eye view

  essen – stück mit aufblick / eating – piece with up eye view

Peter Böving – Germany  2013  10:09 min  german 
Poem: essen – stück mit aufblick Ernst Jandl

An extraordinary criminal case, derived from Jandl’s sound-poem. Sharp-witted and bizarre!

Robin

  Robin

Yuval Nathan, Merav Nathan – Israel  2014  3:24 min  english 
Poem: Robin Emily Dickinson

A reflection on the fragile boundary between life and death, between blooming and withering.

On Loop

  On Loop

Christine Hooper – UK  2013  5:00 min  english  
Poem: On Loop Christine Hooper; Victoria Manifold

The effects of love on a paperweight.

Giraffe

  Giraffe

Annelyse Gelman, Auden Lincoln-Vogel – USA  2013  3:00 min  english  
Poem: Giraffe Annelyse Gelman

The story of Giraffa camelopardalis, an animal whose strangeness is surpassed only by Homo sapiens.

Rzeczy oczywiste / Self-evident Things

  Rzeczy oczywiste / Self-evident Things

Piotr Bosacki – Poland  2013  10:00 min  polnish  
Poem: Rzeczy oczywiste Piotr Bosacki

A reflection on the rules of the world and the scope of human knowledge, which, though vast, is not enough to save us from ignorance and despair.

Semra Ertan

  Semra Ertan

Cana Bilir-Meier – Germany  2013  7:30 min  german  
Poems: Unheimlich Glücklich; Mein Name ist Ausländer; Begegnung Semra Ertan

Semra Ertan’s hidden life. Unbelievably happy – believably unhappy.

The Aegean or the Anus of Death

  The Aegean or the Anus of Death

Eleni Gioti – Greece  2014  7:21 min  greek  
Poem: The Aegean or the Anus of Death Jazra Khaleed

A mysterious man appears at locations in Athens where racist attacks have taken place. Why is he giving life jacket instructions? Whom is he trying to save from the anus of death?

Common Room

  Common Room

The Common Room Animation Team – UK, Israel  2014  7:13 min  english  
Poem: Common Room Talia Randall

Various animators bring their individual styles together in this tale of deeply personal, yet universal, experiences.

BACTERIA

  BACTERIA

Paul Bogaert, Jan Peeters – Belgium  2014  6:18 min  english  
Poems: ONZEKERHEDEN 12; Een twee drie emmers … Paul Bogaert

Not all participants at the Congress Centre know where to go. Meanwhile, bacteria and confusion spread in the toilets.

Die Beschaffenheit der Dinge / The Nature of Things

  Die Beschaffenheit der Dinge / The Nature of Things

Michel Dulisch – Germany  2014  7:00 min  german  
Poem: Im Treppenhaus wächst Klee Marie T. Martin

»Whereof we cannot speak, there we shall pour water.«

Byl sobie król / Once there was a king

  Byl sobie król / Once there was a king

Tytus Majerski – Poland  2011  5:24 min  english  
Poem: Byl sobie król  Janina Porazinska

Images from a mother’s lullaby blend with the real life of her son.

Photon

  Photon

Jack Wake-Walker – UK  2014  4:52 min  english  
Poem: Photon Simon Barraclough

The journey of a photon from the core of the Sun, over millions of years, until it arrives on earth.